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* TheWatson: His initial role was to serve as someone for Val to explain her reasoning being Elena's actions to, with him in turn questioning the thought processes. He starts to move past this though the longer he works with Val, coming to understand Elena's thought process himself, and instead having his role shift to functioning as Val's MoralityChain as Elena continually tries to make Val see her way of thinking.
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* TheWatson: His initial role was to serve as someone for Val to explain her reasoning being behind Elena's actions to, with him in turn questioning the thought processes. He starts to move past this though the longer he works with Val, coming to understand Elena's thought process himself, and instead having his role shift to functioning as Val's MoralityChain as Elena continually tries to make Val see her way of thinking.
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* HeelRealization: After spending a long time caring more for climbing the political latter over anything else, Doak finally stops to think for a second upon realizing Head of Secret Service Gallows is involved with the theft of the Federal Gold Reserve, ''not'' Elena, meaning by proxy, [[spoiler:President Andrew Wright]], the man offering to make him interim Director of the FBI, is just as corrupt as Elena's other targets. Réal even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by invoking AllThatGlitters. [[IgnoredEpiphany It doesn't get him to have a]] HeelFaceTurn though, but instead changes his ambition.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Doak's defining trait is his ambition and drive to climb the political ladder, even at the expense of everyone around him. This prompts him to make numerous questionable actions and overlook blatant corruption in the name of progressing his career. Real warns him that this ambition will be his doom one day, but he refuses to listen. [[spoiler:Real and Anthony both speculate that he's now aiming to blackmail President Wright now that it's evident how corrupt he really is.]]
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Doak's defining trait is his ambition and drive to climb the political ladder, even at the expense of everyone around him. This prompts him to make numerous questionable actions and overlook blatant corruption in the name of progressing his career. Real Réal warns him that this ambition will be his doom one day, but he refuses to listen. [[spoiler:Real [[spoiler:Réal and Anthony both speculate that he's now aiming to blackmail President Wright now that it's evident how corrupt he really is.]]
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* JerkAss: Towards Val, even before the Federova incident.
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* HeelRealization: After spending a long time caring more for climbing the political latter over anything else, Doak finally stops to think for a second upon realizing Head of Secret Service Gallows is involved with the theft of the Federal Gold Reserve, ''not'' Elena, meaning by proxy, [[spoiler:President Andrew Wright]], the man offering to make him interim Director of the FBI, is just as corrupt as Elena's other targets. Real Réal even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by invoking AllThatGlitters. [[IgnoredEpiphany It doesn't get him to have a]] HeelFaceTurn though, but instead changes his ambition.ambition.
* JerkAss: Towards Val, even before the Federova incident.
* JerkAss: Towards Val, even before the Federova incident.
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* HeelRealization: After spending a long time caring more for climbing the political latter over anything else, Doak finally stops to think for a second upon realizing Head of Secret Service Gallows is involved with the theft of the Federal Gold Reserve, ''not'' Elena, meaning by proxy, [[spoiler:President Andrew Wright]], the man offering to make him interim Director of the FBI, is just as corrupt as Elena's other targets. Real even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by invoking AllThatGlitters. [[IgnoredEpiphany It doesn't get him to have a a]] HeelFaceTurn though,]] though, but instead changes his ambition.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: {{Invoked|Trope}} by herself. She sees herself as a hero exposing corruption while claiming the spoils of war, even telling her daughter that her obvious stand-in in the story she was telling her had "justice" on her side.
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* VillainProtagonist: Elena is one of the two co-leads alongside Val, and the series is just as much about what made her into what she is as it is about Val facing her. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that, while she initially seems to be the BigBad, she's actually ALighterShadeOfBlack, focused on exposing corruption within the United States Government as revenge for the bombing of her wedding while stealing the Federal Gold Reserve, the actual BigBad being [[spoiler:President Andrew Wright]], and the GreaterScopeVillain being the Beloks.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Doak's defining trait is his ambition and drive to climb the political ladder, even at the expense of everyone around him. This prompts him to make numerous questionable actions and overlook blatant corruption in the name of progressing his career. Real warns him that this ambition will be his doom one day, but he refuses to listen. [[spoiler:Real and Anthony both speculate that he's now aiming to blackmail President Wright now that it's evident how corrupt he really is.]]
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* HeelRealization: After spending a long time caring more for climbing the political latter over anything else, Doak finally stops to think for a second upon realizing Head of Secret Service Gallows is involved with the theft of the Federal Gold Reserve, ''not'' Elena, meaning by proxy, [[spoiler:President Andrew Wright]], the man offering to make him interim Director of the FBI, is just as corrupt as Elena's other targets. Real even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by invoking AllThatGlitters. [[IgnoredEpiphany It doesn't get him to have a HeelFaceTurn though,]] but instead changes his ambition.
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* MoralMyopia: Despite her father and sister trying to kill Elena as a child, she hates Elena for killing them and "ruining her life", prompting her to bomb the church in an attempt to kill her, [[CreateYourOwnVillain setting Elena's revenge crusade into motion]], including stealing from the Belloks. This just prompts her to kidnap Elena's daughter and [[spoiler:kill her husband]], all while claiming that justice is on ''her'' side.
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* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Lady Bolak in "Happily Ever After".]]
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* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Lady Bolak Belok in "Happily Ever After".]]
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Lady Belok's responsible for ensuring Wright gets into power as the president.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: When President Wright finds Lady Belok inside his office to personally berate for him for failing to eliminate Elena he immediately attempts to talk her out of killing him. Luckily, Lady Belok still has use for the President, but she stabs his hand through a desk and bluntly says he owes her for this mercy.]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: He turns out to be this for the FBI in both infiltrating Elena's faction and investigating the President's connection with the Belok in "Happily Ever After".]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: He turns out to be this for the FBI in both infiltrating Elena's faction and investigating the President's connection with the Belok in "Happily Ever After". However, Sergey and Elena had known all along, and the only reason they saved his life was because he (and his wife whom he told them about) could be useful.]]
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* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: Courtesy of Lady Bolak in "Happily Ever After".]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: He turns out to be this for the FBI in both infiltrating Elena's faction and investigating the President's connection with the Belok in "Happily Ever After".]]
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* AdultFear: In "Fairytale Wedding", Elena had Joan Bradbury's son kidnapped and strapped a bomb on him.
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* NotSoSimilar: In response to Elena's NotSoDifferentRemark.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: She tells Val that they're alike.
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* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:He was part of the group that bombed the church, and had stolen the gold from the reserve and replace them with gold-painted clay bricks.]]
* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler:He was part of the group that bombed the church, and had stolen the gold from the reserve and replace them with gold-painted clay bricks.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: In "Sleepover", Elena snarks on Val finding a dagger and scabbard and asks if they should it when they take on Crowe aka Ghost in case he's a musketeer.
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* TheWatson: His initial role was to serve as someone for Val to explain her reasoning being Elena's actions to, with him in turn questioning the thought processes. He starts to move past this though the longer he works with Val, coming to understand Elena's thought process himself, and instead having his role shift to functioning as Val's MoralityChain as Elena continually tries to make Val see her way of thinking.
* TheWatson: His initial role was to serve as someone for Val to explain her reasoning being Elena's actions to, with him in turn questioning the thought processes. He starts to move past this though the longer he works with Val, coming to understand Elena's thought process himself, and instead having his role shift to functioning as Val's MoralityChain as Elena continually tries to make Val see her way of thinking.
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'''Elena:''' He looks like he's had a hell of a day.
'''Elena:''' He looks like he's had a hell of a day.
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'''Elena:'''you.
-->'''Elena:''' He looks like he's had a hell of aday.day.
* NeverMyFault: Anthony spent an entire night trying to get in contact with people, Doak included. But while Val and Réal have the excuse of suffering a power outage and dealing with a rogue CIA agent, Doak was actively ''ignoring'' Anthony's calls in favor of celebrating liberating the bank. When Réal calls him out on this, he tries to instead switch topics and berate Val by claiming the guards died because Elena was being kept at the base in the first place. Réal isn't having it though, and demands Doak provide a full account on what the hell he was doing that night.
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* NeverMyFault: Anthony spent an entire night trying to get in contact with people, Doak included. But while Val and Réal have the excuse of suffering a power outage and dealing with a rogue CIA agent, Doak was actively ''ignoring'' Anthony's calls in favor of celebrating liberating the bank. When Réal calls him out on this, he tries to instead switch topics and berate Val by claiming the guards died because Elena was being kept at the base in the first place. Réal isn't having it though, and demands Doak provide a full account on what the hell he was doing that night.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: While "evil" [[DownplayedTrope is harsh]], he's the member of the taskforce that's the most unpleasant, constantly berating Val even ''after'' he's told to follow her lead, favoring more unscrupulous methods in fighting Federova's forces, and lacking any sympathetic traits outside of his [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished backstory.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the various authority members that confronted Elena upon her arrival, he was the only one to ''not'' be corrupt in some manner, and in turn not be subjected to Elena's tactics.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the various authority members that confronted Elena upon her arrival, he was the only one to ''not'' be corrupt in some manner, and in turn not be subjected to Elena's tactics.
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-->'''Doblin:''' ''(after getting a note from Val that the fugitive wishes to speak to Elena)''' Call Agent Turner. Tell her to instruct the SWAT snipers to blow the fugitive's brains out.\\
'''Elena:''' Stop!\\
'''Doblin:''' I guess you ''can'' read lips.\\
''[[[Touche Elena smiles]]]''
'''Elena:''' Stop!\\
'''Doblin:''' I guess you ''can'' read lips.\\
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-->'''Doblin:''' ''(after getting a note from Val that the fugitive wishes to speak to Elena)''' Call Agent Turner. Tell her to instruct the SWAT snipers to blow the fugitive's brains out.\\
'''Elena:''' Stop!\\
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* ReadingLips: What Val and Doblin suspect in "#1 with the Bullet".
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'''Elena:''' Stop!\\
'''Doblin:''' I guess you ''can'' read lips.\\
''[[[Touche Elena smiles]]]''
-->'''Doblin:''' ''(after getting a note from Val that the fugitive wishes to speak to Elena)''' Call Agent Turner. Tell her to instruct the SWAT snipers to blow the fugitive's brains out.\\
'''Elena:''' Stop!\\
'''Doblin:''' I guess you ''can'' read lips.\\
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* BreakTheHaughty: When he thought he was close to death in "#1 with a Bullet". Also Doblin orders him to listen to Val from now on since she has more insights and access to Elena than anyone else.
-->'''Doak:''' ''(scoffs)'' That sounds like a demotion.\\
'''Doblin:''' It's reality, Doak.
* JerkAss: Towards Val, even before the Federova incident.
* ItsPersonal: With Elena after the humiliation inn "#1 with a Bullet".
-->'''Doak:''' ''(to Elena)'' I'm gonna destroy you.\\
'''Elena:''' He looks like he's had a hell of a day.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In "#1 with a Bullet", he revealed that when he was a junior agent who worked on a smuggling case in Venezuela. He was told by his superior to let a kid go because he was just in the "wrong crowd", and that kid ended up running a drug ring a few years later. And a lot of people died, most of them teenagers. This is the reason why he's a blowhard, because he doesn't want something like that to happen again. For that, he believed he was the next target.
-->'''Doak:''' ''(scoffs)'' That sounds like a demotion.\\
'''Doblin:''' It's reality, Doak.
* JerkAss: Towards Val, even before the Federova incident.
* ItsPersonal: With Elena after the humiliation inn "#1 with a Bullet".
-->'''Doak:''' ''(to Elena)'' I'm gonna destroy you.\\
'''Elena:''' He looks like he's had a hell of a day.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In "#1 with a Bullet", he revealed that when he was a junior agent who worked on a smuggling case in Venezuela. He was told by his superior to let a kid go because he was just in the "wrong crowd", and that kid ended up running a drug ring a few years later. And a lot of people died, most of them teenagers. This is the reason why he's a blowhard, because he doesn't want something like that to happen again. For that, he believed he was the next target.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:He was framed by Elena, but he's still working with her and Sergey while in jail.]]
-->'''Elena:''' ''(to Val)'' May I suggest you reframe your outlook on Owen. Maybe his involvement is for a good reason.
-->'''Elena:''' ''(to Val)'' May I suggest you reframe your outlook on Owen. Maybe his involvement is for a good reason.
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* {{Expy}}: She's the head of an [[NGOSuperpower international criminal organization with loyalty to no country]], she's always [[TheChessmaster ten steps ahead of everyone]], she's from the former Soviet Union, and when the series begins she allows herself to be captured by the FBI so that she can manipulate them into taking down her enemies. Simply put, she's [[Series/TheBlacklist Raymond Reddington]].
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[[folder:Elena Federova]]
Known leader of the Skazka o Myortvoy Tsarevne from Belarus of Brazilian origin.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Elena's father was killed in a rocket attack when she was a child, and she herself almost died when the attacker stabbed her in the stomach. Later a bombing which struck their wedding left her and her husband as the only survivors.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Elena is Belarusian/Brazilian and has a criminal operation with people of many different backgrounds in her employ (white, black, Latino etc).
* EvilLaugh: Elena does this at the end of "Fairytale Wedding", after Sergey tells her a joke via morse code.
* SensualSlavs: Elena is a gorgeous, glamorous and sultry woman who's introduced in a very nice dress, smiling with false charm at her interrogators as she plays mind games against them.
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[[folder:Val Turner]]
FBI agent who gets involved in investigating Elena.
* IgnoredExpert: Val tries to warn her superiors that Elena's plans are way more complex than simply robbing banks, but since she has a bad reputation after her husband was convicted, her superiors ignore her until it's too late.
* PrimAndProperBun: Starting in "Fairytale Wedding", Val starts wearing her hair up in a bun.
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!!FBI:
[[folder:Anthony Flowers]]
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[[folder:ADIC Jonathan Doak]]
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[[folder:Rogelio Réal]]
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!!Government:
[[folder:Reed Doblin]]
US Attorney General
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[[folder:Joan Bradbury]]
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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* AdultFear: In "Fairytale Wedding", Elena had Joan Bradbury's son kidnapped and strapped a bomb on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Joan Bradbury turns out to be a corrupt official who's taken money from a [[TheCartel Mexican drug cartel boss]] in exchange for information on federal operations against him.
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!!Family:
[[folder:Sergey Vodianov]]
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[[folder:Owen Turner]]
* FrameUp: Val's husband is serving time in prison for theft when he was an FBI agent, though he'd actually been framed by [[spoiler:Elena]].
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!!Main Characters:
[[folder:Elena Federova]]
Known leader of the Skazka o Myortvoy Tsarevne from Belarus of Brazilian origin.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Elena's father was killed in a rocket attack when she was a child, and she herself almost died when the attacker stabbed her in the stomach. Later a bombing which struck their wedding left her and her husband as the only survivors.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Elena is Belarusian/Brazilian and has a criminal operation with people of many different backgrounds in her employ (white, black, Latino etc).
* EvilLaugh: Elena does this at the end of "Fairytale Wedding", after Sergey tells her a joke via morse code.
* SensualSlavs: Elena is a gorgeous, glamorous and sultry woman who's introduced in a very nice dress, smiling with false charm at her interrogators as she plays mind games against them.
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[[folder:Val Turner]]
FBI agent who gets involved in investigating Elena.
* IgnoredExpert: Val tries to warn her superiors that Elena's plans are way more complex than simply robbing banks, but since she has a bad reputation after her husband was convicted, her superiors ignore her until it's too late.
* PrimAndProperBun: Starting in "Fairytale Wedding", Val starts wearing her hair up in a bun.
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[[folder:Anthony Flowers]]
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[[folder:ADIC Jonathan Doak]]
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[[folder:Rogelio Réal]]
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!!Government:
[[folder:Reed Doblin]]
US Attorney General
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[[folder:Joan Bradbury]]
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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* AdultFear: In "Fairytale Wedding", Elena had Joan Bradbury's son kidnapped and strapped a bomb on him.
* CorruptPolitician: Joan Bradbury turns out to be a corrupt official who's taken money from a [[TheCartel Mexican drug cartel boss]] in exchange for information on federal operations against him.
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!!Family:
[[folder:Sergey Vodianov]]
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[[folder:Owen Turner]]
* FrameUp: Val's husband is serving time in prison for theft when he was an FBI agent, though he'd actually been framed by [[spoiler:Elena]].
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